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regnbage
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:27 am Post subject: [Solved] Searching for words with mixed formatting |
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Is it possible to search for words with mixed formatting? For example, if the text has normal formatting, but some words have a letter or two in italic, how to find the words which have a letter in italic?
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Robert Tucker
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:29 am Post subject: |
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Ctrl+F
Put full stop (period) . in "Search for" box. Click "More Options". Check "Regular expressions". Click "Format". Under "Font" tab select Italics. Click "Find".
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regnbage
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| I'm sorry for not being correct in the first place. Many of the words are wholly italic. So I only need to find mixed words. |
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Robert Tucker
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 6:04 am Post subject: |
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You could try this:
Search for .* in format italics and replace with <i>&</i> (much as my first post)
Search for: ([^a-z])(<i>)([a-z]) "no format"
Replace with: $1<f>$3
Search for: ([a-z])(</i>)([^a-z])
Replace with: $1</f>$3
Search for: <f>|</f> and replace with nothing (empty "Replace with" box)
Search for: <i>|</i> "Find all"
Sorry, best I could come up with.
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regnbage
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:43 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry, but nothing is found with following lines:
| Code: | | ([^a-z])(<i>)([a-z]) |
| Code: | | ([a-z])(</i>)([^a-z]) |
Though, if in the second step Search for all:
and then make it normal, most of the "wrong italic" will be corrected as usually there is only one such letter in succession.
Thanks for helping me.
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Robert Tucker
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| regnbage wrote: | I'm sorry, but nothing is found with following lines:
| Code: | | ([^a-z])(<i>)([a-z]) |
| Code: | | ([a-z])(</i>)([^a-z]) |
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But you did get the italics between the tags? Did you remove the italic format under the "Search for" box by clicking the "No Format" button?
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regnbage
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| Robert Tucker wrote: | | But you did get the italics between the tags? Did you remove the italic format under the "Search for" box by clicking the "No Format" button? |
Yes and yes. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Odd:
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regnbage
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Stupid me  the text is in cyrillic with the only one latin letter 'I'. Besides, a letter in "wrong italic" format can have a space or period character next to it.
Try the following example, and you'll see that not all the tags are found, anyway.
nnn <i>i </i>nnn n<i>i</i>n nnn |
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Robert Tucker
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Try replacing all italic spaces (and periods) with normal spaces (and periods) before you start.
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regnbage
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| OK, it can help. |
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